Since my other post today was very long and took me 40 billion years to write, I’m just going to make this quick and sexy.
I was looking up some biographical information on Lloyd Richards for one of my projects on wikipedia, and I couldn’t resist the urge to look up "religion" because I was curious about all the listed religions in the world.
There are quite a few of them, and again I always find it interesting when people say that their religion is right and all others are wrong considering how many people in the world would then be considered wrong.
Then I came across this encyclopedic entry that I just wanted to share with all of you.
Religious knowledge, according to religious practitioners, may be gained from religious leaders, sacred texts (scriptures), and/or personal revelation. Some religions view such knowledge as unlimited in scope and suitable to answer any question; others see religious knowledge as playing a more restricted role, often as a complement to knowledge gained through physical observation. Some religious people maintain that religious knowledge obtained in this way is absolute and infallible (religious cosmology). The particulars of religious knowledge vary from religion to religion, from sect to sect, and often from individual to individual.
The scientific method gains knowledge by testing theories through facts or experiments and thus only answers cosmological questions about the physical universe. It develops theories of the world which best fit physically observed evidence. All scientific knowledge is probabilistic and subject to later improvement or revision in the face of better evidence. Scientific theories that have an overwhelming preponderance of favorable evidence are often treated as facts.
Man, the difference is so clear. Okay thats all.
Enjoy.
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